I love these goofy anti-education losers because they think you just rocked up with a chisel at 18 and someone said 'ok so do what you want, enjoy, cathedral there please'. The guilds and apprenticeships were hardcore. It was a degree, as we'd understand it, and highly specialised
I’ve never seen a more perfect example of insecure men pretending to be alphas then the idiots in the Trump administration. They think throwing insults or raising their voice is them controlling the room and making people respect them. He can’t even answer a single question in opposition so instead he just goes on the defense.
The entire administration does this. They are like middle school bullies pretending to be adults. We could not have a more pathetic group of people running our country.
In Hawai‘i during Thanksgiving Weekend 2021, the US Navy exposed 93,000 people to jet fuel-contaminated water - a majority of them Military families. Command lied to their own people until they posted pics of babies covered in rashes and videos lighting their tap water on fire.
it’s hard to illustrate how it felt at the time if you were too young, but this happening right after the shock bernie primary win in michigan was a nuclear hopium bomb. it felt like the world was on the precipace of something better
it's impossible to explain the early 2000s to zoomers, but just to give you a sense:
in 1995, backpack rapper will i am started a backpack rap group called Black Eyed Peas with a mexican-american and a filipino guy, released two albums, added a blonde female vocalist and moved to pop-rap.
the pop-rap album is recorded over the course of 2001, and is allegedly both interrupted and inspired by 9/11
9/11 album has three singles: let's get retarded, shut up, and a kind of 'do they even know it's christmas' consciousness-raising song called 'where is the love?' about how we just have to love each other. the album is now quadruple platinum
after this, will i am starts a tech co and acquires an israeli machine learning company. i think he also made hardware for the early iphone
this year he's teaching a course on agentic AI at ASU
The massacre of elementary students in Iran is the largest mass killing of school girls in history
This should be much bigger news.
These little girls went to school and didn’t come home because the US and Israel decided to attack Iran.
167 little girls.
Get mad. Get loud.
Just so the straight people are aware, this is a mockumentary film and every cast member looks directly into the camera/is aware of the film crew. Most characters look awkwardly into the camera but they had kylie look unphased because she’s spent her entire life being followed by a camera crew. It’s intentional.
This conspiracy has always held a special place in my heart.
It was the first time I realized that you can pull just about any thread in this world and find a dark and horrible secret.
I was working at an office and I was horrified by printer ink costs and was really annoying me how we always ran out of different ink cartridges.
I got the idea that any "excess" color could be used to supplement the black ink so that all cartridges are depleted at the same rate.
I quickly found out that printer drivers are not as simple as they seem, and you can't arbitrarily control the inkjets.
This is one of many examples of how we secretly live in a planned economy.
While the free market could have made printing cheap and abundant, few people even bother buying printers anymore, as the police state has spent decades subsidizing an anti-consumer line of artificially shitty products.
These subtle pressures can trivialize a market, leaving the illusion of a free market with the compounding inefficiency of a planned economy.
The CIA even has a VC firm called In-Q-Tel which they use specifically to ensure that they get to pick winners and losers in the tech industry.
Until we restore the free market (and all of its consequences), our markets will continue to devolve into these soviet-style oligopolies.
I read a thing a few years ago that said millennials are the only generation who are going to understand computers. The generation before us were too old and "set in their ways" to get it, and the one after us had too much convenience and extra layers of usability on top (like iPhones and such).
I didn't think too much of it at the time. Thought it was hyperbole, doom prophecising, all that. Apparently not.
Kids, please. Learn. There's gonna come a point where OS companies try and sell you basic actions you can do yourself. Not in a "but it's easier" way, which I get, but in a "this will take you ten minutes and literally save you so much money" way.
I'm not just being an old man in a cave right now. It's true, I promise. I've fought printers before you were born, loaded half translated Gameboy roms from floppy disks onto windows 95. I promise it's worth it.
Ariana Grande’s secret ED Instagram account she co-owned with her friend Courtney where they posted about food and stealing men just got exposed. Her team swiftly deleted the page but there’s so much proof. She’ll always be a weirdo.